· Private foundation
Seligman Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $328k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUP15Q ALLIANCE | $37,460 |
| LYRA MUSIC | $35,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $25,206 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION | $25,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FND | $10,000 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATON LEAGUE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- D1DUP 15Q ALLIANCE2× · 2020–2021 · $62k · revenue +90%
- LMLYRA MUSIC INC2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +103% · 71% of their budget
BARNARD COLLEGE2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CFCanavan Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MCMUSICIANS CLUB OF NEW YORKone grant, 2020 · $6k
- TVTOWN & VILLAGE CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DUP 15Q ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LYRA MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Canavan Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seligman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seligman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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